Friday, December 30, 2011

PetFinder.com asked shelters and rescue groups to tell them the most wacky or unusual
names for adoptable pets in their care this year!

I would have to agree these are some unusual names but not all of these names are new to us, earlier this year we made a pet tag for a pup named Jimmy Chews and we were just delighted to see that the name made it to this list.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Each year Petfinder looks through the 300,000+ pets listed on their service to find the top names for adoptable dogs and cats.

Each year we make a list too, and we can't wait to compare the two, this will not be posted until the end of the year so we have all data from the whole year available for you, in the meantime checkout the Petfinder results.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

George Clooney's adorable story about rescuing his dog Einstein. He saw a video of a pound puppy on an animal shelter's website and knew immediately that Einstein was the pup he wanted to adopt.

Read below about how he cooked up his plan to win over Einstein, the full article is in the January 2012 Esquire, Meaning of Life Issue.

Hey, this is Einstein. I guess he's part cocker
spaniel or something. I got him out of a shelter about a year and a half
ago. I was looking for a dog because I hadn't had one for a while — and
I wanted one that was house-trained. I'm just terrible at
house-training dogs.

So I go online and see Einstein. They had a whole film about him. It
was actually really sweet. You see him all beat up and shit in the
shelter, and they show how they cleaned him up. God, I love this dog. So I called and said, "I like Einstein!"

The woman goes, "Well, we don't know if Einstein will like you."

"Well, can I meet with Einstein?"

"Yes, we'll bring him to your house, but if he doesn't like you, he
can't stay. We have to have good homes for these dogs." She sounded very
serious.

Okay. I have this really long driveway, and I open the gate for them,
and I start to panic that Einstein is not going to like me. So I run
into the kitchen, where I have these turkey meatballs, and I rub them
all over my shoes.

This woman opens the door, and who knew Einstein was such a food whore on top of everything? He throws himself at my feet.

She says, "I've never seen him react like that, ever!" And she left
him with me on the spot. And forever, now, he just thinks of me as the
guy with meatball feet.